awk output size limits

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From: utzoohenry
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1982 19:31

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Although awk(1) is perfectly capable of reading lines much larger
than 512 bytes, it cannot write them.  This appears to be an accident;
the definition of RECSIZE in run.c is what determines the output-line
limit, and it is set to 512 whereas elsewhere RECSIZE is 5*512.  I
have tried increasing RECSIZE to 1024 and have seen no ill effects.

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Title: awk output size limits 
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Posted: Mon Sep 20 19:31:26 1982
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